Bottom scrapping mud sucking day 29◦27'.545 N 085◦03'.152 W

A beautiful day in the GIWW. That stands for the Gulf Intercoastal Waterway. I just found out today that this is the official name of the ICW so I stand corrected. Either way the sun was shining and the dolphins where swimming all around us for most of the day.

Captain Jim was at the helm most of the day and as you can tell, he is really enjoying his new chair.

Our trajectory today was relatively narrow and shallow. We saw a few boats that apparently had a bad day.

                             

 

When I saw this second one Nella, I thought of you immediately!  

Since we will not see a weather window until Saturday, we decided to slow it down a bit and stop in Apalachicola. This being Thanksgiving in the states, we tried calling the city Marina but only got an answering machine. We went to the dock only to find that the water level was too low for our boat. We stopped dead, just like when I hit bottom, but at least this time it was Jim; not me; at the helm. Unfortunately, the bottom is mud which just sucked our keel right in.

so much so that we ended up leaning to one side before Jim got enough power to get us out of it. 

We turned around and ran 5 miles back up the river to find an anchorage. Oddly enough, our issue here was that Saul Creek is too deep, with depths of 30-40 feet most of the way. We found a stretch that was only 16 feet deep, so we dropped our hook here. It was obvious to us that this was a good place, since we found 4 other boats in the creek as well.

We ended up having docktails with Bert and Stel on "Estralita"

Tomorrow we will head on to Carrabelle which is about 25 miles up the river. Happy Thanksgiving to all our US friends. We are thankful for each and every one of you.